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Missing the breast gender, fantasy, and the body in the German Enlightenment

Title
Missing the breast [electronic resource] : gender, fantasy, and the body in the German Enlightenment / Simon Richter.
Author
Richter, Simon.
Publication
Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2006.

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Description
1 online resource (ix, 353 p.) : ill.
Series Statement
Literary conjugations
Uniform Title
Missing the breast (Online)
Alternative Title
Missing the breast (Online)
Subject
  • German literature > 18th century > History and criticism
  • Breast in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-345) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Introduction: men with breasts, women without -- Breasts on a platter and the bosom of Jesus: the parameters of fantasy -- Phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and the breast -- Ut in pene: the medical and moral discourses of the breast -- Wieland's busted tropes -- Sophie von la Roche and the communities of the breast -- Revealing the phallus, concealing the breast: the revolutionary fictions of Wilhelm Heinse and Therese Huber -- The breast in ruins: Heinrich von Kleist and the language of the breast -- Being the breast, being without: Philip Roth, Matuschka, and Deena Metzger.
LCCN
2005034675
OCLC
ssj0000607455
Author
Richter, Simon.
Title
Missing the breast [electronic resource] : gender, fantasy, and the body in the German Enlightenment / Simon Richter.
Imprint
Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2006.
Series
Literary conjugations
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-345) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
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